The united nations has acknowledged the existence of 192 nation-states as of 2006. if the united nations were to acknowledge nations and not just nation-states. what would happen to that number? what challenges might this pose for the united nations? as part of your written response, write a definition of the concept "nation" that you believe the united nations should use.

 This number would greatly increase, as there are many nations that don't have their own their own country. Some are part of a bigger country (the Tamils in India) and some are distributed among many countries (the Kurds)

Recognizing all those nations could increase some conflicts, such as that between the Kurds and Turkish in Turkey.
I think that a good definition should acknowledge that  some nations have independent states and some are part of another state - the defining characteristics should be a sense of unity among the nation.